Southwestern Stuffed Green Peppers with Turkey

These Healthy Southwestern Stuffed Green Peppers with Turkey are Healthy and deliciously different. Made with ground turkey, rice, black beans, tomatoes, corn, cilantro and topped with a fresh salsa and Monterey Jack cheese. I promise your family won’t be bored at the dinner table tonight.

Healthy Southwestern Stuffed Green Peppers with Turkey

3 Green peppers halved, cleaned and seeded

1 pound ground turkey

1 small yellow onion, chopped

2 cloves garlic, minced

1 pound ground turkey

1 medium tomato, diced

1/3 frozen corn

1/3 cup black beans

1/2 cup cooked rice

2 teaspoons Oregano

1 teaspoon Ground Cumin

½ teaspoon ground Sea Salt

¼ teaspoon finely ground Black Pepper

2 tablespoons fresh cilantro

1/2 cup grated Monterey Jack cheese

1/4 cup favorite salsa

1 tablespoon oil

Healthy Southwestern Stuffed Green Peppers with Turkey

Instructions

Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onion, garlic and sauté until onion is translucent about 2 minutes. Add spices and stir to combine. Add ground meat and cook, stirring, until browned. Add tomato, black beans, corn, cilantro, and rice. Remove mixture from heat and set aside.

Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees

Place clean green peppers that have had all seeds removed & have been halved, in a large steamer to steam 3 minutes or if desired longer. Remove with metal tongs and fill with meat and rice mixture. Place in oven safe baking dish. Top each one with salsa and cheese.

Stuffed peppers are so versatile, I love your Southwestern flavors in this recipe. The family will definitely enjoy all the flavors. I’m going to double this and have extra for freezing which is a great idea now that summer is here. Thanks so much for sharing your delicious and flavorful recipe.

Thank you! About a year ago I had to stop eating red meat and pork —except on special occasions I try to avoid it .Healthy Southwestern Stuffed Green Peppers with Turkey was my way of enjoying my stuffed peppers without eating red meat . The other flavors really compliment the turkey as well.